When most drivers merge early, everyone waiting stacks into one lane, and the backup stretches twice as far as it needs to be. When drivers use both lanes to the end and take turns at the merge point, the same number of cars waits in half the distance. The cars don’t get through the bottleneck faster. The line is simply folded in half.
Once you’ve discredited reason and disowned objective truth, you cannot make an argument in the traditional sense. So you must argue some other way.
The 77 percent was gone, and it was not coming back, and no exhortation about trusting the experts could possibly retrieve it, because the people had not made an error. They had learned.
This is part of a series of essays that examine the current epistemological crisis. PART I: The Fauci Affair and Our Epistemological CrisisPART II: A
A few did not put it aside, and from 1962 forward there existed in America a small population of people who had understood something the majority had declined to understand — and who would be proved right again, and again, and again, for sixty years, all the while being called cranks the entire time.
It was an age, aptly titled the ‘Wonder Years’ by a nostalgic show of my childhood, where the question ‘How would we know?’ was on everyone’s minds, confident that they would continue to answer it with little miracles of modern life.
A culture that has lost its courts is easy to name and hard to picture, so before going further it is worth slowing down and laying out the machinery — what the courts actually are, what they sit on top of, and what exactly gives way when they fall.
Even when the underlying facts are public, undisputed in their particulars, available to anyone who wants them, the country divides cleanly in two the moment anyone asks what they show. We have grown so used to this that we have stopped finding it strange.
It is very strange.
Not every soul prays the same way — and that is by design. The Christian tradition has long recognized that God draws different people through
Charlie may be small, but he knows every move in the Charrería, the national sport of Mexico. When an unexpected turn of events at the local
For more than a century, the Indiana University Hoosiers lived at the bottom of the college football world—outmatched, overlooked, and resigned to history. Then Curt
From the book Never Daunted: How Curt Cignetti Took Indiana Football from Worst to First and Changed the Game. In the hours and days after the
Those attuned to the socio-political currents of our time will find themselves haunted by a perplexing question: Why, in an age of unprecedented material comfort,
Earlier this month, an AI-generated song climbed all the way to the top of the country charts. Some were amazed by this milestone, which seemed
While the assassination of Charlie Kirk was devastatingly horrific, it is possible that the response from regular people on the left has been even more
On Average, Americans say ‘Thank you’ six times a day or about 2,200 times a year. But is it enough? Recent studies show that sincere
The first step in solving the problem is to define the problem, and, to do that, sometimes we have to flip the script.
Thomas Edison had been working on a nickel-iron battery when his associate Walter S. Mallory stopped by the lab. For over five months, Edison hadn’t
Google Gemini is running an ad during the Olympics that is utterly heartbreaking, and not in a good way. In it, parents want to help
A lovable javelina sets off on an adventure with her desert wildlife friends to return a lost doll to a girl on the other side
